Electical Contractor

To start with, let us clarify one thing: CXO is the latest industry acronym. OK, even if it is not the newest, most popular buzzword on the street, we are officially claiming it to be so starting now. It definitely makes sense, what with all of the CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs—the list can go on and on.

Graybar, North America's largest distributor of electrical, telecommunications, and networking equipment, is launching a series of technology showcase events across the country - from mid-March through late October - to provide contractors, installers, and resellers with updates on new industry stan

Electrical contracting firms are no longer the "single-product" firms they once were. For most of the history of electrical construction, the electrical contracting firm's market has been traditional contract construction and its customer base, predominantly general contracting firms.

Experiences in California and Texas notwithstanding, some members of the energy community are holding fast to their belief in a competitive, deregulated energy market. The Energy Advisory Board (EAB), appointed last year by U.S.

A lot of marketing babble surrounds General Electric's Six Sigma process. When the delivery team needs a glossary as a handout, you know it'll take a while to figure how Six Sigma might help you. In this case, the effort might be worth it.

An owner approaches you not only for the electrical wiring of a new building, but also the highest-tech structured cabling system available for security, networking and e-access, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

This is the second of three columns dealing with industry distributors and what they are doing on e-commerce.

This is the last piece in a series on companies marketing e-commerce services to electrical contractors. We’ve been able to limit this coverage to four columns because so few companies now seek to provide these solutions.

TradePower’s businesses form a three-legged stool. Right now, that third leg, the digital marketplace, is the weakest. But if the company’s venture capital backers (at Boston Ventures) are correct, someday the third leg might dwarf the others.